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New Year
opera in three acts
text by the composer
Edition: Performance material
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New Year
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Description
The wildest and most open of his operas, New Year is an extraordinarily youthful conception for a composer in his mid-eighties, a work that spins his lyrical ecstasy and rhythmic vitality into a new world on the point of disintegration. Unlike its four predecessors, all of which had been written for the Royal Opera House, this one was composed for Houston Grand Opera, a relocation that encouraged Tippett to veer from opera to musical, even
rock musical, giving space to pop song, spoken dialogue, joke and, above all, dance—the communal movement of bodies that would, as in The Midsummer
Marriage but now within a much looser framework, with music say what words could not. Jo Ann and Donny—young woman and young
man, white and black, both orphans—cannot join the dance, isolated as they are inside their personal fears and fantasies. And the dance itself is imperilled by social unease in this city that is ‘Somewhere and Today’.
To it come visitors from ‘Nowhere and Tomorrow’: the captain (Regan), pilot (Pelegrin) and computer wizard (Merlin) of a space vessel—though these
science-fiction characters turn out to be ritual agents (and to have human problems of their own). Donny undergoes a magical transformation; Jo Ann, through love, gains the courage to leave the room in which she has been hiding.
(Paul Griffiths)
Orchestral Cast
3 (1.,2.,3.pic).2.ca.1.bcl.3sax.1.cbsn-4.2.3.1-perc(xyl, vib, glsp, tub bells, jazz kit [trap set: 2wdbl, 5tom-t, s.d, sus cym, h.h, b.d], ten d, slit dr, 2steel dr [high/low], 2brake d, clav, guiro, whip, cow bells, sm tam-t, clashed cyms, hand-held cyms played with mallet/steel bar, lg tri)-hp.egtr.bgtr-str (4.4.4.4.2min)-electronic tape-sampler kybd
Cast
Jo Ann, a trainee children's doctor · lyric soprano - Donny, her young brother · light baritone - Nan, their foster mother · dramatic mezzo - Merlin, the computer wizard · dramatic baritone - Pelegrin, the space pilot · lyric tenor - Regan, their boss · dramatic soprano - The Presenter · microphoned male singer - chorus of dancers and singers
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Title:
New Year
opera in three acts
text by the composer
Language:
English
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
1986 - 1988
Duration:
100 ′
World Premiere:
October 27, 1989 · Houston, Texas (USA)
Wortham Theater Center
John Schiappa; Helen Field; Krister St Hill; Jane Shaulis; James Maddalena; Peter Kazaras; Richetta Manager · Conductor: John De Main · Houston Grand Opera
Original staging: Sir Peter Hall · Choreography: Bill T. Jones
(scenic)
Wortham Theater Center
John Schiappa; Helen Field; Krister St Hill; Jane Shaulis; James Maddalena; Peter Kazaras; Richetta Manager · Conductor: John De Main · Houston Grand Opera
Original staging: Sir Peter Hall · Choreography: Bill T. Jones
(scenic)
Commissioned work :
Co-commissioned by Houston Grand Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the British Broadcasting Corporation
Series:
Technical Details
Product number:
LSL 4024-01
Performances
New Year
Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
July 7, 2024 |
Birmingham (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Birmingham Opera Company
New Year
Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
April 13, 2024 |
Glasgow (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , City Halls
New Year
September 21, 1991 |
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , BBC 2 — CD-Broadcast-TV-Production
New Year
Conductor: Andrew Davis
Orchestra: Glyndebourne Festival Opera
July 1, 1990 |
Ringmer, Lewes (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Glyndebourne Opera House — National Premiere
New Year
Conductor: John De Main
Orchestra: Houston Grand Opera
October 27, 1989 |
Houston, Texas (United States of America) , Wortham Theater Center — World Premiere
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